I've been using the Django admin to upload images to my site one-by-one for a few weeks now and I've finally decided I've had enough of it and started looking for a Javascript library that will enable me to do bulk uploads.

I still have around 100 or so albums and at least 1,000 more pictures to upload so you can just imagine how tedious that would be. I found this library called DropzoneJS that …

For a machine being sold with Ubuntu pre-installed, I find it surprising that Dell doesn't have a utility to make BIOS updates easy on Ubuntu.

Dell's BIOS update utility only runs on Windows or DOS.  So for us Ubuntu users, we'll need a way to run DOS on our machines and execute their update utility there.  Luckily, there's FreeDOS.

If you're having stability or performance issues, updating the BIOS is always worth a try. …

Ever get these annoying admin emails?

Invalid HTTP_HOST header: '104.131.142.135'. You may need to add u'104.131.142.135' to ALLOWED_HOSTS.

Request repr():
<WSGIRequest
path:/,
GET:<QueryDict: {}>,
POST:<QueryDict: {}>,
COOKIES:{},
META:{'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'close',
'HTTP_HOST': '104.131.142.135',
...

The reason you're getting this is because someone's trying to access your site via a host not listed in your ALLOWED_HOSTS setting.  In my case, for this blog, I have just this:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['.calazan.com']

So if someone visits my site using a host …

We just finished migrating the database for our Django 1.6 app from MySQL to PostgreSQL. If you have a clean environment this process is as simple as running syncdb and/or migrate to create the tables, truncating the data in those tables, and running the dumpdata and loaddata management commands.

Here are the steps to do this:

Step 1: Create an empty database in your PostgreSQL instance

CREATE DATABASE dbname OWNER rolename;

Step 2: Create a …

I've finally gotten around redesigning my blog and making it more mobile friendly. This is the third redesign for this blog since I started it back in January 2008.

I decided to completely redo it this time, moving away from the WordPress/PHP/MySQL stack to Django/Python/PostgreSQL. Feels much cleaner and runs a lot faster.

Since I just wanted something simple, I wrote the backend myself instead of relying on existing Django apps out there such as …